Solution Sales Specialist

Solution Sales Specialist This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Sales Specialists & Consultants are product, services, software or solution specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned focus areas. Collaborates with and supports Account Managers and provides specialist expertise within the sales team. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. May have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography, or may be allocated to one high-potential, competitive attack account.  The Services Sales Consultant is responsible for selling technology, services and/or technology management services (TMS) to end-user customers (and/or partners) in an assigned geographic territory or industry focusing on new business or up-selling within an account. The position requires a solid understanding of the services value proposition and how customers assign services contracts. Knowledge of marketing campaigns to align initiatives with account planning activities is also required. The Services Consultant develops consultative customer proposals, tailoring strategy and solutions to meet the needs of the customer. They understand the customer’s business challenges /objectives to provide value added services and solutions.  In some instances these specialists may also be responsible for outsourcing deals.

Seek out new opportunities and expands and enhances existing opportunities to build and manage the pipeline in specialty area. Maintains knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's products and services better. Develop pursuit plans and manage the pipeline to ensure alignment with account managers. Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry. Contributes to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings. Work closely with and supports account manager, providing technical expertise and support, and participating in client engagements up to C- level engagements for more complex solutions in smaller accounts. May focus on growing contractual renewals for mid size accounts with some complexity, to higher-total contract- value renewals. Interface with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.Build sales readiness and reduce client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in area of specialization.

Required: University or Bachelor's degree preferred.Directly related previous work experience. Demonstrated success in achieving progressively higher quota. Extensive vertical industry knowledge required. Typically 5-8 years advanced sales experience required. Knowledge and Skills: Deep knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings, to be able to sell expansive systems or services and attached products. Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and